SMILE Cologne, Germany
SMILE is a Post-Punk band with a singer, who prefers not to sing. Instead, she intones her poetic stories spiked with
personal reflections.
SMILE light-footedly show that post punk can still sound refreshing. They don't take their references as dogma, remain experimental, stubborn.
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